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  • noun Plural form of windbreaker.

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Examples

  • Scott Sternberg, the designer and founder, says retail orders for the more colorful looks from the collection, such as windbreakers and shirts in an electric shade of yellow and cherry-slush red, were strong.

    A Crayola Spring for Men's Fashion 2009

  • Everyone was dressed in windbreakers and fleece vests and a few had hats and gloves.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • A handful of agents wearing tan windbreakers with red letters on the back reading TASK FORCE—and, effing interesting that no particular agency was named, not the FBI or HSA or CDC, just a generic, all-encompassing TASK FORCE—strolled the grounds alongside techs in yellow jumpsuits.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Bush, as was his custom, offered a prayer to begin the meeting and then the members of what was now effectively his war cabinet, casually dressed in windbreakers, khakis, and jeans, began to discuss the future outlines of the American response to 9/11.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The kids who subsidize the ice cream truck, who never met a travel team they didn't want to join, who leave their brand new windbreakers on the bus, and yell "McDonald's!" on every ride home.

    Kid Jocks Want Ferraris, or Pizza Jason Gay 2011

  • Moments later the business park was alive with men and women in windbreakers emblazoned with the letters FBI.

    Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011

  • Everyone was dressed in windbreakers and fleece vests and a few had hats and gloves.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • These wore street clothes with dark windbreakers on top that said state police on the back.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • These wore street clothes with dark windbreakers on top that said state police on the back.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • Bush, as was his custom, offered a prayer to begin the meeting and then the members of what was now effectively his war cabinet, casually dressed in windbreakers, khakis, and jeans, began to discuss the future outlines of the American response to 9/11.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

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